Light Pink Octagon
Sweetness is a thief
Sneaking across my tongue, lighting a fire in my brain
quietly
Sweetness is pink
Sweetness lingers in the air
a cool breeze on a hot day
it is the glitter upon freshly fallen snow
Sweetness is pink
For this week’s challenge, show us something that stands out from the everyday.
This challenge really challenged me- which is a good thing.
Ii spent a lot of time think about the things that stand out from the everyday and what I realize was that the world is full of things that are unique.
That’s when it occured to me, light is rare and unique- from the source to your eye to your brain light is rare, nobody will ever see it the way you do.
I won’t see it shining the same way you do reflected in a painting or against someone’s face or from the Sun or the stars.
So here they are, rare, beautiful, unique-
light.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Photo A.M. Moscoso
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I did it!
This month I did a post a day.
That’s 31 Posts.
Yay Me!
I TOOK THE CREATIVE BULL BY IT’S CREATIVE HORNS AND I MADE IT MINE.
I AM A FIERCE WRITER!
Well anyhoo this is what I accomplished this month:
Vilhelm Hammershoi
I’ve tried new things like writing Poetry.
Poetry is fun, I’m really glad I don’t know what I’m doing. I was really sad to find out there are rules and I’m not following them- I’m not sad I didn’t follow the rules, I’m just sad there are some.
I’ve also explored artwork- I’ve discovered I really have a love for Abstract Art and Impressionist Art. There are rules in that too, but I don’t have to care because I can’t paint. I can barely write legibly and I screw up stick figures. So I just get to admire the art and be inspired by it.
I’ve also discovered some great blogs to read so my bus commute home is fun and I no longer spend the bus ride hoping I’ll get hit by lightening and spared that particular form of drudgery.
Yay on that.
Monet
And the biggest take away this month has been that I really do like the sound of my own (writer’s ) voice, no matter what is going on I CAN find the time to write and create and to top it all off we are done with August and I can go into full Halloween Mode.
YAY YAY YAY.
John Quidor
So the posts will continue on a daily basis- where it goes nobody knows, there are a lot of writing projects to be tried.
But Halloween is going to be a big deal around here and that will color a lot of what I write about.
Just FYI
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You’re reading these words on a screen. Screens — comforting, addictive, inescapable — are everywhere, especially when we read and write (and blog). Today, write a poem about, against, or in homage to the screens in your life. Or write about some other kind of screen — for example, the one stretched across your window, or the piece of cloth on which movies are projected at the theater.
It chased me in my dreams
it chases me when I wake
why do you follow me
into the bathroom?
why do you care what I eat
what I wear
what I think?
Are you a God? A Devil? A Demon?
You judge my harshly Facebook, you frown upon me, scold me
When I chose to think
for myself
or chose to be
alone.
You ask when I sin
when I vote
when I’m good
and when I’m bad.
Did I fly a Rainbow flag?
Did I weep for the kittens
left in a bag, on a road
all alone
defenseless in the cold?
Do you think you
are
Santa Claus?
My Mom or my Dad?
Because I know you are not
I’m glad you’re not.
You have
no passion
no Soul
housed
in your cyberbones.
I wish we could
pull your plug, cut your cord
live again
without
stating
repeating
endlessly
relentlessly
to the very end
of each and every day.
How can we turn you off, turn you away, live for the moment
without looking down
without looking away.
We can live out of the blue.
we
existed
without you
before.
Bill Traylor